Because our state’s higher educrats have nothing better to do with our time (and money) than inventing cute ways to suck up to state lawmakers, here’s University of South Carolina president Harris Pastides presenting State Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler with a framed, autograph photo from the school’s mascot, “Cocky.”
The photo of Peeler and “Cocky” [...]
Harvey Peeler Flip Flops?
Yippee! It’s USC Day!
Let’s celebrate the University of South Carolina, people … which is receiving a whopping $944 million in the current budget (and that’s just for its Columbia, S.C. campus).
How does USC spend that money? Well, let’s start with the $125,000 raise it recently gave its president, Harris Pastides. Or the big bucks its law school doled [...]
USC “Communicrat” Stepping Down
SCHOOL’S “RE-BRANDING MANAGER” DEPARTING
The University of South Carolina’s top communications staffer – who was paid more than half a million dollars (not counting benefits) over the past two-and-a-half years – is leaving the school for the Left Coast. There she will take another six-figure job at another left-leaning taxpayer-funded institution of higher learning.
USC vice president [...]
Massive Pay Raises For University Of South Carolina Bureaucrats
STUDENT NEWSPAPER EXPOSES INFLATED PAYMENTS TO “HIGHER EDUCRATS”
University of South Carolina president Harris Pastides isn’t the only “higher educrat” getting a massive pay raise this year …
According to an expansive report published in The Daily Gamecock, hundreds of administrators and faculty members at USC are getting huge raises this year – annual salary increases over [...]
USC President Gets $125,000 Raise
HARRIS PASTIDES: WELL-COMPENSATED FOR WASTING OUR TAX DOLLARS
Despite the University of South Carolina’s plummeting academic position and its ever-escalating investment in failed command economic boondoggles, president Harris Pastides is getting a nice pay raise for his, um, “efforts” at the helm of the Palmetto State’s flagship institution of higher learning.
According to The (Columbia, S.C.) State [...]
More Command Economic Nonsense In South Carolina
SOUTH CAROLINA’S “ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT” LEADERS CAN’T STOP MAKING STUPID VIDEOS
What is it with big government boondogglers in South Carolina and their need to produce increasingly ridiculous and embarrassing self-promotional videos? Did we miss the memo that said the key to creating jobs in this state was giving our elected officials and appointed bureaucrats more money [...]
“Pennies” For Innovista?
NOTORIOUS BOONDOGGLE TO RECEIVE $50 MILLION FROM PROPOSED TAX HIKE?
We haven’t been following the particulars of the latest debate over the “penny sales tax” for Richland County, S.C., but the history of this scam is a perfect case study for how local government screws over taxpayers in the so-called “reddest state in America.”
All with the [...]
Strickland: A Time For Choosing
STUDENT RESPONDS TO USC’S COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
By James Strickland || Congratulations to Dr. Glenn Tilton, Midwest Chair of JP Morgan Chase, on receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of South Carolina on May 5, 2012. I appreciate his address and am honored to have heard from such a distinguished entrepreneur.
As a graduate of the 2012 [...]
USC Trustee’s Residence Questioned
The University of South Carolina Alumni Association held a reception last month for the school’s Boondoggler-in-Chief Harris Pastides and his lovely wife Patricia Moore-Pastides. The shin-dig was held at the Florence, S.C. home of Debbie and Dorn Smith – which is located at 411 Seminole Avenue in Florence, S.C., according to the invitation.
No big deal, [...]
The “Other” USC Speaks
Unlike bloggers who have sucked off of the University of South Carolina’s taxpayer-funded teat, we don’t think it’s especially newsworthy that one of the state’s most hare-brained higher ed boondogglers has decided to open a Twitter account.
Of course we’re not Brad Warthen – who devoted several hundred words earlier this month to University of South [...]
SC Spending: The More Things “Change”
To hear the mainstream media tell it, South Carolina’s budget for the current fiscal year is roughly $5.5 billion.
The only problem? The scribes in the legacy press don’t count the $8.5 billion in federal money appropriated to our various state agencies – or the $8.1 billion in “other funds” that’s collected in various forms/ fashions [...]
Innovista: Even The Parking Lots Are Boondoggles
For years, this website has railed on the spectacular failure of the “Innovista” boondoggle – which has squandered tens of millions of tax dollars on an ill-conceived speculative economic development deal in the heart of South Carolina’s capital city.
The brainchild of S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell and USC President Harris Pastides, Innovista has already cost [...]
